These Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Cupcakes are a big-time favorite in my house.
These treats are such a good sweet munchie for a party because everyone loves cupcakes, and everyone loves cookies, and everyone loves peanut butter cups. Put them all together and you’ve got these Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Cupcakes! They’re always a big hit. My peanut butter cookie cupcakes (without the peanut butter cups) is a popular recipe too.
The Recipe Girl Cookbook:
This recipe comes from my cookbook: The Recipe Girl Cookbook. 80% of the recipes in my book are brand new, created just for the cookbook (never published on RecipeGirl.com). So that means that 156 of the 195 recipes… you’ve never seen before! The remaining 39 recipes are total website favorites. I have a very dog-eared copy of my book that lives on my kitchen counter. I cook from it often!
Here’s a sneak peek at the chapters in the book- all meals of the day!
My favorite part of the book is the entertaining (theme menus) chapter. I love to entertain, so sharing menus with others is a big passion.
A close-up look at what the theme menus look like- including a Super Bowl party, of course! The Recipe Girl Cookbook was published several years ago now, but used copies are still available for purchase on Amazon.
These peanut butter cup cookie cupcakes happen to be on my Super Bowl party menu in the book, but of course they can be made for any occasion. The peanut butter cookie dough bakes nicely inside of a muffin tin, and the addition of the REESES is just fabulous. They’re GOOD!
If you are a lover of peanut butter cups, you might also like to try my Chocolate- Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake Cake or these Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Bars.
Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Cupcakes
Recipe Details
Ingredients
- 1¼ cups all purpose flour
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup crunchy peanut butter
- ½ cup (1 stick) salted butter, at room temperature
- ½ cup granulated white sugar
- ½ cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 16 whole regular-sized peanut butter cups
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray two 12-cup muffin tins with nonstick spray.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
- In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to combine the peanut butter and butter. Add the sugars and mix until combined. Beat in the egg. Add in the dry ingredients a little at a time and mix just until they are incorporated.
- Fill 16 muffin cups about half-full with cookie dough. Bake for 14 to 16 minutes, or until the cookie cupcakes are golden on the edges. Expect them to sink slightly in the centers. When they come out of the oven, place a peanut butter cup in the center of each warm cookie cupcake and press down lightly. Place the cupcake pans in to the refrigerator or freezer to expedite the cooling process, if desired. Once the peanut butter cups have hardened, remove the cookie cupcakes from the pan.
Do you have a hard copy cookbook for sale?
I don’t– the soft cover was published in 2013. I believe you can still find copies on Amazon.